CVE-2025-3770 (GCVE-0-2025-3770)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-08-07 00:42
Modified
2025-08-07 13:28
Severity ?
7.0 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-693 - Protection Mechanism Failure
Summary
EDK2 contains a vulnerability in BIOS where an attacker may cause “Protection Mechanism Failure” by local access. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability will lead to arbitrary code execution and impact Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability.
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TianoCore EDK2 Version: 0
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